 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution to the university of Oxford. I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college. They proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...generous retribution. To the university of Oxford /acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as chearfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have heen ashamed. To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." At Magdalen college he remained fourteen months, and he states them to have heen the most inactive... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...from superstition to infidelity! — " To the University of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation; end she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent 14 months at Magdalen College; they prated the 14 months lite most idle and unprofitable of... | |
 | William Field - Clergy England Biography - 1828 - 490 pages
...Treatise on Education, vol. ii. * Jebb's Works, vol. ii. p. 255. ' Mr. Gibbon had said of Oxford, " She will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother." Of Cambridge, Dr. Parr re-echoes, " Never shall I have the presumption to disclaim her as a mother... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...come and gorge upon the church.' Gibbon says, in his Memoirs : — ' To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation, and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College : they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...Westminster to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was admitted as a gentleman-commoner, April 3, 1752. About this time his constitution, hitherto extremely...recollections of Oxford were embittered by his subsequent contest with some of the clergy, and the hostile Vou VII. E treatment which he sustained at their hands;... | |
 | Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...Westminster to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was admitted as a gentleman.commoner, April 3, 1752. About this time his constitution, hitherto extremely...recollections of Oxford were embittered by his subsequent contest with some of the clergy, and the hostile Vou VII. E treatment which he sustained at their hands;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...imaginary debt, to assume the merit of a just or generous retribution. To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully...son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... | |
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To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. 
